Hit-and-run driver was in rush, Clarkstown police say

Suspect, 19, was drunk, chasing train to parade

10:32 PM,
Mar. 16, 2013

A suspect in a hit-and-run case in Nanuet on Saturday morning, March 16, 2013, was arrested at the train station Montvale, N.J. Clarkstown police said the man fled the scene in his SUV and then took a NJ Transit train from Nanuet before he was caught two stops later. The victim, a 59-year-old Pearl River man, suffered serious injuries to his head, shoulders and ribs but is expected to survive. (Khurram Saeed/The Journal News).

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A 19-year-old Nanuet man apparently in a rush to catch a train to the St. Patrick's Day parade in New City caused a chain of events Saturday morning that sent a 59-year-old pedestrian to Nyack Hospital with serious injuries, Clarkstown police said.

Shortly after 10 a.m., Ryan Barron left the Wald Pavilion, a strip mall on South Middletown Road in Nanuet, drove two blocks to Prospect Street and hopped on the train before he was captured by Clarkstown police in Montvale, N.J. It was not clear if he knew someone had been injured after his white SUV rear-ended a parked car that smashed into a second ...